Jazz Guitar Elegante

Buffalo, NY

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Travels up to 60 miles

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Cool Jazz Guitar

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Tony Playing The Christmas Show At Radio City Music Hall

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Tony Playing Jazz at El Meson in Santa Fe NM

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Tony At Vara Winery

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Tony with Jazz Vocalist Maria Cruz

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Tony and Maria

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Tony with Flautist, Bonnie Schmader

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Tony And Bonnie

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Overview

Professional career guitarist and musician providing classy, jazzy elegant solo or ensemble music. Recently Moved back to Western NY from New Mexico. Content includes American Song book standards, latin and Bossa Nova tunes. My Experience includes 30 years as the guitarist for the Radio City Music Hall Orchestra. During this time I played for numerous shows with the Rockets as well as Broadway and celebrity shows, national and international tours and society gigs.
My music is perfect for functions that require mellow to medium energy background music, where conversation can take place. Or, if desired we can take center stage with a larger group. I also double on flute.


Reviews

6 reviews

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Janelle D.

December 24, 2025
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Perfect for our Holiday Bash!

Group was absolutely wonderful for our holiday bash with our residents. They arrived early to set up, started promptly and the resident really enjoyed the music!

Hired as: Jazz Band


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Peter Z.

February 3, 2024
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Great music

Music was perfect for our birthday party.

Hired as: Jazz Band


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Shawn B.

September 23, 2021
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Wonderful guitarist for our event

Tony was a great addition to our outdoor engagement party. Guests were greeted with the sounds of the jazz guitar while they walked into the patio. Tony arrived promptly, played very nice tunes and added to the ambiance of the evening. Highly recommend!

Hired as: Jazz Band


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Robin C.

February 23, 2020
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Great addition to our event!

Jazz Guitar Elegante was a great addition to our event. They showed up in time and we're all Berwyn friendly and professional. We had several different venues and they handled the transitions flawlessly.

Hired as: Jazz Band


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Eric D.

September 7, 2019

Wedding Ceremony

Tony played acoustic guitar for our wedding ceremony. It was absolutely perfect. We asked him to play three different songs and he was able to quickly learn them and play them just as we imagined. We were thoroughly impressed and it made our ceremony truly unforgettable. We had so many guest comment on how well the music sounded when the bridal party walked down the isle. Everybody including myself said as soon as he started playing when the bride walked it brought tears to their eyes. We highly recommend Tony for weddings as well as other events. We could not be happier!

Hired as: Jazz Band

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Booking information

Price range: Contact for rates

Languages: Portuguese

Gig length: 60 - 180 minutes

What to expect

As a solo jazz guitarist you would here me play standard tunes from the American song book that most people are familiar with like "Night And Day" "Fly Me To The Moon" , Ain't Misbehavin' "Girl From Ipanema" "Besame Mucho" etc. If I am playing solo, the music will be quite low key and mellow. Duos can include other instrumentalists to join me such as flute, bass keyboard or a vocalist can still be mellow but is a little more pronounced. As we add more players such as drums and horns, we can be more pronounced still and people can do ballroom type dancing. I am sensitive to your volume needs. Please note, I don't do rock and roll or disco as there are great bands that specialize in that.
Usually A set consists of 50 minutes of music and 10 minutes break unless otherwise arranged.

About

Tony Cesarano originally studied guitar as a teenager growing up in New York City, where he was exposed to great musicians and music becoming expert in many styles including jazz, pop and classical music. He studed classical guitar with the great NY classical guitar teacher Stanley Solow and jazz with famous hungarian jazz guitarist, Attilla Zoller. Tony played in the NY jazz scene and won the Benny Goodman Stage Band award at just age 16. In the Air Force, Tony played guitar in the band and upon returning to NY he joined the professional NY music scene playing various gigs around town. His playing attracted the attention of Radio City Music Hall and they offered him a job playing guitar in their orchestra, a job which lasted for 28 years. In addition, Tony played many Broadway musicals and celebrity shows. Retiring to Albuquerque, Tony continues to play solo guitar as well as ensemble gigs with the best musicians in New Mexico. Highly seasoned, experienced and professional, Tony is offering to share his virtuosity and love of music with you should you desire some great solo or ensemble jazz guitar music. Also, Tony specializes in the Spanish and Latin classical guitar music of Spain and South America.

Additional booking notes

I have all the equipment I need to perform and just require close proximity to an electrical outlet.

Services offered

Past booked events

December 2025

23

Tuesday

Retirement Community Event

1:30pm - 3:00pm

Lancaster, NY

January 2024

30

Tuesday

Birthday Party

6:00pm - 6:45pm

Albuquerque, NM

December 2023

16

Saturday

Christmas Party

6:00pm - 8:00pm

Albuquerque, NM

December 2022

03

Saturday

Wedding Cocktail Hour

3:30pm - 5:00pm

Albuquerque, NM

September 2021

11

Saturday

Cocktail Party

5:00pm - 6:30pm

Placitas, NM

February 2020

21

Friday

Fundraiser

5:00pm - 9:00pm

Santa Fe, NM

October 2019

13

Sunday

Wedding Ceremony

4:00pm - 7:00pm

Albuquerque, NM

Set list

Solo Jazz Guitar:
The Days Of Wine And Rose, Take Five, Summertime, The Nearness Of You,
Wave, Ain't Misbehaving, The Nearness Of You,. Satin Doll, Besame Mucho,
Over The Rainbow, Night And Day, The Girl From Ipanema
Spanish Classical:
Selections from the works of Sor, Tarrega, Albeniz, LLobet and Moreno-Torroba
South American:
Selections from the works of :
Barrios, Lauro, Cardoso, Piazolla, Villa Lobos and Brower

Influences and inspiration

Growing up I have been Influenced by the famous studio guitarist Tony Motola and the famous jazz guitarist such as Joe Pass, Wes Montgomery, Kenny Burrell. Jazz groups such as Dave Brubeck, The Modern Jazz Quartet, The Jazz Crusaders.
Andre Segovia is a constant inspiration for me as regards the classical guitar.

Setup requirements

No equipment required.

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